When the soul of Lin Zhijun, a modern forty-something, awakens on her wedding night in the body of sixteen-year-old Lin Wanqing, a heart-pounding journey to defy fate begins. She is the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor of the Yan Kingdom, and a political pawn trapped in a gilded cage, forced to marry Xiao Beichen, heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, a man she has never met. But how could Lin Zhijun's rebellious spirit ever submit? Beneath her phoenix crown and wedding robes lies a fierce ambition to break free from the shackles of her age.
Thanks to the unexpectedly awakened Daily Lottery System, she acquires extraordinary items from another world, including invisibility talismans and mysterious gunpowder blueprints. On her wedding night, she slips away in her bridal finery and ventures alone into the martial world, transforming from a sheltered young lady into a shadowy avenger. She tempers her body, trains with the blade, and outwits her pursuers. With her astonishing mastery of gunpowder, she delivers a thunderous blow that wipes out a bandit stronghold, carving out a path of her own in a world ruled by male power and political intrigue.
But fate refuses to let her go so easily. He Feng, an elite investigator from the Ministry of Justice, closes in at every turn with an immortal's compass that can track souls. Xiao Beichen, her “fiancé” far away in the immortal sects, is so humiliated that his Daoist heart is thrown into turmoil. He vows to find the runaway bride who shamed him. Meanwhile, the undercurrents of court and martial world sweep the mystery of her identity into a vast whirlpool...
Can Lin Wanqing, as a woman, shake the deeply rooted rules of her age? As she is swept into a maelstrom of power, immortal fortune, and self-redemption, what choices will she make? This is a stirring legend of a woman using her wits and influence to reshape the world, and an ultimate struggle for freedom, strength, and dignity.
